the time allowed for a airport fire truck is 3 min to the midpoint of the furthest runway.

FAR Part 139.319 states the response time requirements in the event of an emergency at the airport. It states that within 3 minutes from the time of the alarm, at least one required ARFF vehicle must reach the midpoint of the farthest runway and begin application of required extinguishing agents.

What are the implications of weight (full fuel) on approach and touchdown speeds ? Crew not prepared / trained / current with the scenario. Land a 182 too fast and it starts oscilations till iether fly away, or break something. Just asking. Sometimes the basic principles remain despite the size.

Keith Stannard.

"I've got wild staring eyes. And I've got a strong urge to fly. But I got nowhere to fly to."

What are the implications of weight (full fuel) on approach and touchdown speeds ? Crew not prepared / trained / current with the scenario. Land a 182 too fast and it starts oscilations till iether fly away, or break something. Just asking. Sometimes the basic principles remain despite the size.

On a Jet of similar size, the speed variations are probably around 20Kts between a light weight and a heavy weight aircraft
I doubt that the fuel load had that much of an influence

…...I have to ask what was the cause of 41 deaths? One expects to be certified safe she'd be subject to international evacuation and survivability standards and with so many developments and improved practices since the British Airtours 737 disaster I am surprised that in 2019 so many would perish in a parked aircraft fire

Unless it has been shown already and I have missed it (my bad) it is my belief that the speed was not significantly high. My take is that evidence for this is that the aircraft seems to bounce up and stall so it couldn't have been too fast. This gives the classic porpoise. (Land on nose first followed by mains bounces the nose into the sky, aircraft immediately stalls, drops nose and lands on nose first again only to repeat. - you don't porpoise at high speed because the aircraft keeps flying after the first bounce) They however managed to interrupt this by getting the nose up again to prevent a second nose first landing and stalled so hard onto the mains that the struts went through the wings. So now the question comes back to why did they land on the nose wheel ? Well if we consider that the speed may not have been that high we must look for another reason and one possibility (out of many) is that in amongst all of what was going on, they lost the radio altimeters during the lightning strike, and didn't have the normal cues they were waiting for to start the flare. Late flare equals land on nose.

Possibly this incident shows that the fire-fighting techniques at airports are inadequate to handle such a large fire event...

With that amount of flames around the rear of the aircraft, the oxygen would get sucked right out and noxious fumes will incapacitate you very quickly, especially as only the forward doors were open and the idiots in front trying to get their bags out the overhead stowage. Very sad.

When they use the loaded term "denier" that should be the first clue that we're not dealing with a rational opponent in a debate... but "religious" dogma.